Reforming Juvenile Justice provides extensive information on how the goals, design, and operation of the juvenile justice system should be informed by knowledge about adolescent development, which has implications for effective aftercare.

“The Dimensions, Pathways, and Consequences of Youth Reentry” draws on a national roundtable on youth re-entry to recommend the next steps in research and practice to ensure the successful transition of young people back to their communities. Though the roundtable was held in 2003, the recommendations remain relevant.

“Just Learning” discusses the systemic obstacles to effective teaching and learning in juvenile facilities and the imperative to make education for youth held in them the primary tool of rehabilitation and prevention.

The “Learn to Earn” Models for Change Innovation Brief details how the lack of attention to education and career training in juvenile facilities and re-entry has aggravated barriers to employment for youth, and discusses reforms made by the Pennsylvania Academic and Career/Technical Training Alliance (PACTT) to address this problem.

HousingThis Issue Brief by the Coalition for Juvenile Justice discusses the opportunities for collaboration and impact on the problem of youth homelessness and juvenile justice with improved re-entry planning as one of the goals.

Challenges Faced by Youth Returning from the Adult Criminal Justice System“You’re an Adult Now” details the impact of adult-system involvement on youth, and the options for managing them in that system to obtain the best outcomes.

The National Reentry Resource Center (NRRC), administered by the U.S. Dept. of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance and established by the Second Chance Act, serves as a source of information and guidance on adult and youth re-entry. The NRRC provides training and technical assistance to Second Chance Act grantees.

This Models for Change Innovation Brief describes the Pennsylvania Academic Career/Technical Training Alliance to help incarcerated youth gain better education and job skills while in custody and once released.

Many probation departments use graduated sanctions grids to help them standardize probation responses to infractions. Click here for a sample grid from Reclaiming Futures and click here for Baltimore City’s Graduated Responses Grid.

This article by Dick Mendel makes the case that the commonly used surveillance-oriented probation does not reduce recidivism and there are other more effective alternatives with proven power to reduce reoffending.

This report is based on a year- long benchmarking study of the Department of Labor’s employment focused Reentry Employment Opportunities (REO) program. It includes data on several youth-focused programs.

Gavin Long’s violence stood in sharp contrast to the hundreds of protesters, many of them young people, who expressed their anger and rage at the police department with words — loud words, painful words, harsh words — but just words. (See rest of story plus slideshow in Bokeh.)

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